Abstract
The aim of the article was to compare the conditions of silent and contralateral noise on the temporal processing parameters. A total of 40 participants (20 males and 20 females) were enrolled in the study with a mean age of 21.7years, participants with normal hearing thresholds and no history of middle ear pathology were enrolled for the study. The temporal processing tests such as duration discrimination test, gap detection test, and temporal modulation transfer function tests were carried out in these 40 individuals in the two conditions of silent and contralateral noise using MATLAB. Statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS version 25.0 were descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out. Data was normally distributed on the Shapiro-Wilk's test of normality due to which a paired t test was carried out to establish the nature of significance between the silent and contralateral noise condition. Results reveal the presence of significant difference (p < 0.01) between the groups for all the parameters of temporal resolution with contralateral noise condition performing better than silent condition for the parameters. There is a positive effect of the efferent auditory pathway on the temporal resolution parameters thus implying that speech perception in noise is improved in the presence of background noise for normal hearing individuals due to this effect.
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